Element harvesting

ResourceHarvesting

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Tools 5

Element is the rarest resource in ARK: Survival Ascended. It powers Tek-tier items and structures. Primarily obtained from boss fights and certain farming methods.

Element yield ranking

Average items per resource node or corpse at the selected settings.

Comparing Element

Server harvest rate

Wild melee levelsMutation levelsTamed melee levelsHarvest specialization

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Resource node · Corpse target

Resource node

Corpse target

avg / target

Range shows the approximate variation around each simulated average.

Node yields assume the recorded base harvest HP (e.g. 1000 for Redwood trees, 620 for Metal nodes). In-game, trees and rocks whose harvest health scales with their size have per-instance HP that varies with the node's size, so actual yields per node will vary. The values shown represent the average.

Best Tool for Element

Metal HatchetBest
from Element Nodes (Aberration, Amissa, Forglar, Forglar Part II, Svartalfheim, Lost City, Insaluna, Temptress Lagoon, Atlantis, Thaloria, Vintal, Taenia Stella)
60%
Metal Pick
from Element Nodes (Aberration, Amissa, Forglar, Forglar Part II, Svartalfheim, Lost City, Insaluna, Temptress Lagoon, Atlantis, Thaloria, Vintal, Taenia Stella)
60%
Mining Drill
from Element Nodes (Aberration, Amissa, Forglar, Forglar Part II, Svartalfheim, Lost City, Insaluna, Temptress Lagoon, Atlantis, Thaloria, Vintal, Taenia Stella)
60%
Stone Hatchet
from Element Nodes (Aberration, Amissa, Forglar, Forglar Part II, Svartalfheim, Lost City, Insaluna, Temptress Lagoon, Atlantis, Thaloria, Vintal, Taenia Stella)
50%
Stone Pick
from Element Nodes (Aberration, Amissa, Forglar, Forglar Part II, Svartalfheim, Lost City, Insaluna, Temptress Lagoon, Atlantis, Thaloria, Vintal, Taenia Stella)
50%